Themes in Animal Farm. Differentiated carousel activity to push more able students. Assign each coloured group a theme in explore in the novel. Ask them to prepare a presentation on that theme. During the presentation, students fill in the carousel grid to make notes on how all 5 themes are presented in the novel.

Lesson resources to analyse I wanna be yours by John Cooper Clarke. The worksheets are designed to encourage students to come up with two ways of interpreting key lines in the poem to help them answer the overall question: would the speaker be a good boyfriend?

A worksheet to help explore Act 3 Scene 4. Read the scene Task 1. Find quotations to support each point. Task 2: Convert 3 quotations in PEE paragraphs Extension: Give acting directions to Macbeth and draw an image of the scene on stage. Worksheet 2: Analyse the impact of Macbeth’s word choices when speaking to the ghost.

Students read the Grade 9 GCSE model answer on the theme of love and trace how the 9 step method has been used to write about the extract and the play as a whole. They then plan 3 GCSE style questions on the themes of death, fate and family honour using the 9 step method. I have made it so you can print them separately or as part of a 4 page booklet.

Romeo and Juliet sequencing activity on the plot

Heroes by Robert Cormier historical context

To Kill a Mockingbird: model essays on themes of prejudice and racism

An Inspector Calls: Revision Activity on 5 character and 5 theme questions for AQA and EDUQAS. Complete the tables using the revision guides to plan responses to exam questions.

A clearly structured worksheet to help students vary sentence openers in 6 different ways. Students can use the 3 model examples and the word bank at the bottom to help them create interesting versions of the boring sentences in 6 ways: ing word ly word ed word preposition abstract noun adjective There is also a tougher version looking at 10 different openers.

Worksheet with 6 exercises aimed at getting students to use brackets independently in their writing.

20 interesting sentences to use in a creative writing response to Paper 1 Section B. Also includes 7 ways to make writing more compelling.

A lesson aimed an understanding and analysing the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. Originally aimed at a relatively low ability group but there are extension tasks on the main activity to stretch the more able. There is a further optional extension worksheet attached.

Lesson 1 introduces the poem Hawk Roosting and prepares students for an exam style question using the writing frame. Lesson 2 includes a writing frame to help compare how power is presented in Ozymandias and Hawk Roosting.

This revision lesson includes 9 possible exam questions for English language paper 2 writing. For each task, students are asked to come up with 3 ideas and to write an effective opening paragraph. The starter activity asks students to analyse 9 effective openings to letters, articles and speeches.

20 interesting sentences to use for writing Paper 1: creative writing. 20 interesting sentences to use for writing paper 2: transactional writing. To set it up, simply introduce a Paper 1 image or Paper 2 topic and ask students to create the sentences at random. You can use the random generator PowerPoint to pick any of the 20 sentences at random which is particular effective for engaging students. After this, I give each student a 20 sided dice so they can explore the sentences at their own writing pace and make their own decisions about their writing.

This huge Romeo and Juliet pack has been adapted for home learning. This comprehensive collection of worksheets have been designed to help prepare students for the 9-1 GCSE examinations on Romeo and Juliet. Look through the 65+ preview pages to have a look at the range of resources on offer. The pack includes the following resources: Quotation revision sheets. Examination Style Questions Model high quality paragraphs Writing frames Planning sheets to help tackle exam questions Analysis questions of key scenes Abridged version of the whole play 20 key extracts to analyse Revising the 6 main characters Flashcards 3 A3 sheets which contain short easy to remember quotations for Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, Nurse, Friar and Capulet from across the play. It has been created with the closed book AQA 1-9 examination in mind to help students remember quotations to use in their responses. The activity is differentiated: Bronze level: Identify where in the play the quotes come from Silver: Relate the quotations to key themes. Gold: Identify key words and language features within the quotations Diamond: Relate the quotations for context. 2I have also added AQA-style examination questions based on 5 characters (Mercutio, Friar, Nurse, Prince, Capulet) which works well as a differentiated carousel activity. An AQA-friendly writing frame to help students to structure a response to the play. Model paragraphs aimed at grade 7-9 students. Planning sheets for exam questions on the theme of fate and the character of Capulet. Differentiated comprehension questions on Mercutio. Analysis questions on Juliet’s speech in Act 4 Scene 3 and Romeo’s final speech in Act 5 Scene 3. 10 exam questions written in the style of the AQA 1-9 new spec.